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SolarBear

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Registered: 2005-11-06

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Mounting corrupted memory card ?

Hi everyone, I have a problem concerning mounting a USB card reader. It's a dual SmartMedia/xD USB card reader. I figured I'd just do

mount -t vfat /dev/sdaX /mnt/photo

but this didn't work. In fact, I'm getting no /dev/sdXX at all. As I mentioned in the title, the card is corrupted in some way, and I was hoping to mount it, make an image of the disk and work from the image (trying to save of my mother-in-law's photos, heh).

So I'm not quite sure of what's happening : I've successfully mounted USB sticks as well a digital cameras without problem, so I need help figuring out what's wrong. I used usbview to make sure it was recognized, and it is. So what can I do now ?

fukawi2

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From: .vic.au

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Re: Mounting corrupted memory card ?

Is the device (/dev/sda) present, and just the partition(s) missing?

If it's corrupted, then you'll need to be careful (obviously!)

I'd use dd to create an image of the whole device, then work on that - try recreating the partition table etc

dd if=/dev/sda of=~/cardimage.dd

You can mount and work on that file as if it's a block device now, without risking stuffing up the original card

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